European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday August 24, 1991 at a glance a a we re ambassadors on the air a says Ham radio operator Steve Hutchins above president of the Wiesbaden Amateur radio club. See Story on pages 14-15.victims of love after being videotaped having sex a Florida couple say they Are victims of love. A Page 4last budget Battle Connecticut became the last state to adopt a 1991 budget on thursday. A Page 5two killers executed a convicted killer was electrocuted in Virginia and in Missouri a Man was put to death by injection thursday. A Page 6dewhurst Dies at 65 Colleen Dewhurst the award winning stage and screen actress is dead at the age of 65. She won two Tony awards and three emmy s. A Page 7af expands program the air Force is expanding its popular transition program to help service members affected by the draw Down. A Page 10difficult task switching from communism to a free Market society is difficult As the dramatic coup in the soviet Union underscored this week. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers .19 comics a 19-21 commentary. 13 letters. 12 Money matters. .17 sports. 22-28 to listings. .27 weather. .11 Yeltsin from Page 1 emerging coalition agreement with Gorbachev Yeltsin also reversed Gorbachev a selection of new defense and Interior ministers and Kab chairman that had been made Only on thursday the Day Gorbachev returned from his isolation in the Crimea. Under the emerging agreement Yeltsin apparently is permitted to name the Security members of Gorbachev a Cabinet. Friday the president of the russian Republic named Vadim Baratin a Liberal to head the  Kab to replace acting chief Leonid Sheb Arshin. A Man identified Only As Gen. Evgeny Shaposhnikov replaced Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev As . Defense minister and Valentin Baranikow replaced Vasily Trushin As Interior minister of the . As Gorbachev and Yeltsin met a crowd of about 1,000 people headed toward the communist party Headquarters in Moscow saying they wanted to capture and preserve records that might prove the party supported the coup. Calls for retribution have sounded since the three Day Long coup collapsed wednesday with Gorbachev beginning army a amps bookstores to close monday stars and stripes bookstores will be closed for inventory on monday. Customers can obtain their copy of the stars and stripes at other vending Points within their Community. Purge of coup plotters and thousands of cheering demonstrators toppling a statue outside the Moscow Headquarters of the Kab whose former Leader backed the ouster  and Gorbachev met Friday morning in the Kremlin for the first time since the end of the coup wednesday said Gorbachev spokesman Igor Malashenko. Yeltsin whose stature Rose with hts resistance in the coup said earlier that he would insist that proven reformers be installed in top jobs. The six newspapers suspended by Yeltsin All based in the russian Republic Are pravda Sovie Skaya Rossiya glasnost Rab Ochaya Tribuna Moskovskaya pravda and Leni Skoe Namya. It was unclear whether he had the authority to fire the chiefs at Tass and no Vosti. He also ordered no Vosti nationalized. In other developments a Gorbachev said he was to meet Friday with leaders of the nine republics who support the new Union treaty. The treaty whose signing was put off by the coup had angered hard liners who objected to its provisions ceding More Kremlin Power to the republics. Gorbachev also was to make a late afternoon visit to the russian parliament Tass reported. A kirghiz president Askar Zakaev said the Republic of Kirghizia would take control of the Headquarters of the kirghiz Wing of the communist party As Well As the local Lenin museum. Zakaev said the party would be compensated. A Only one of the eight top leaders of the coup remained at Large Early Friday a Oleg Baklanov Deputy of the state defense committee. Gorbachev said the coup collapsed wednesday when plotters panicked at resistance by citizens and soldiers. Four of the conspirators flew to the Crimea a Black sea resort area to see Gorbachev As the coup was crumbling. He promptly had them arrested. Two More were arrested later and one killed himself. The arrest of Kab chief Vladimir Kryuchkov and other communist party hard liners inspired tens of thousands of demonstrators to undreamed of daring. They expressed their anger and disgust with the organizations responsible for killing millions of soviet citizens and now caught conspiring to return to their old dictatorship. At Kab Headquarters on Dze Rohinsky Street thousands Shook fists and shouted a executioners a they painted a Down with the Kab a and a Swastika on the front of the building. One of the coup leaders Interior minister Boris Pugo committed suicide thursday by shooting himself in the head As he was about to be arrested. From Page 1 treated for mental health problems before they deployed. A soldiers came with expectations that we would evacuate them a she said. A but the Only time i do evacuate is if a patients really crazy or if they have severe combat  neither were common. Most of the soldiers who came to her Hospital tent a had Home front problems that just sort of followed them to the desert a Ordeniz Schneider said. The most common ailments she saw were Back pains and headaches caused by stress. In maj Loree Sutton another Field psychiatrist said she sent Only one Soldier Home out of 25,000 people in the 1st army div task Force. That patient had a previously diagnosed anxiety disorder and had been sent to the desert against the advice of doctors at the Niernberg army Hospital Sutton said. Historically Battles that Are won rapidly decisively and with few casualties result in a few if any psychiatric casualties a Martin said. A fall that aside there were individuals who did experience significant emotional  because these cases Are exceptions rather than part of a trend he Calls them a pockets of  they amount to a very few soldiers in terms of raw  the Broad Public support for the troops also held stress to tolerable Levels Martin said. And gis were a Well trained Well disciplined and Well  during the Gulf War and its aftermath a there was really a sense of we us ours a Sutton said a compared to the Vietnam Era of i me mine. They Vietnam vets came alone they left alone and they stayed alone when they get Back to the  military doctors typically estimate that there is one psychiatric casualty for every three physical casualties Martin said and this estimate proved Correct in the Gulf fighting. Of the 148 americans killed in action during the six week War 48 were soldiers assigned to the Europe based Vii corps armoured task Force. And doctors recorded a literally Only a handful of cases in the corps that could be defined As classic combat stress reactions Martin said. These involve people who handled dead bodies or who witnessed killing. A with modern weapons and modern technology Quot Martin said a you done to often witness  stressed War veterans urged to seek treatment by Vince Crawley Nair Sherg Bureau not a to of the Gulf War veterans suffering from trauma have visited a psychiatrist. A the fact that we re not seeing a lot of people does no to mean there Arentt a few out there a said or. Maj Loree Sutton 1st army div psychiatrist. A isolation is the worst symptom. That somehow you re  postwar stress is a a Normal reaction to what a clearly a crazy situation Quot Sutton said. Common symptoms Sloe said Are a nightmares and insomnia. A flashbacks or an obsession with the traumatic event that happened. A feeling guilty numbed doomed and helpless exhibiting an explosive temper. These symptoms a Are not a sign of weakness a Sutton said. They a Are really a process of the mind Healing  if people arc experiencing these symptoms and Are concerned about them Sutton said they can Check with a local chaplain who can talk to them or refer them to mental health experts. A no one should feel guilty if they re not suffering a said or. It. Col James a. Martin a psychiatric researcher in Heidelberg. Everyone responds to traumatic situations differently he said. Compared to the deploying and waiting for desert combat the actual ground War a was probably the least stressful time a Sutton said a in terms of soldiers being overwhelmed by the stress a immediately after the War soldiers in front line units used the cease fire period to conduct a military form of group therapy. A they used the after Battle time to really debrief and piece together the Battle experience a Sutton said. A soldiers were getting together As a group and putting together a Puzzle. Everyone gets a Chance to describe their View of the  unlike an Ordinary after action review these meetings were a not judgmental in any sense a Sutton said. They were held Only a for the purpose of putting together the big picture. Otherwise soldiers run the risk of having experienced their piece of the action in isolation a isolation is the worst Medicine for Post traumatic stress psychiatrists said. Or. It. Col Marylin Ordeniz Schneider who served at a combat Hospital near the front lines mentioned a study that said hardly any american indians Felt symptoms of Post traumatic stress when they returned from Vietnam. A when they went Back to their Village there was a ceremony that incorporated them Back into their society Quot Ordeniz Schneider said. For returning combat veterans she said a a there a got to be closure.  Friendly fire episodes were particularly disturbing to the survivors he said. And there also were polio pop who saw the a horrors of suffering inflicted on civilian women and children and the  Ordeniz Schneider spoke with some troubled soldiers  dead iraqis bang eaten by dogs. And she said medical teams a were prepared to see soldiers but not prepared to see  Martin said that soldiers assigned to Field medical units were the ones who saw the most trauma. A they saw up close pain and suffering continuously a he said. By comparison combat teams often registered thei a a kills from More than a mile away. On1 my tank Crew claimed an unconfirmed hit at three Miles. As these soldiers Settle into their Posl War lives Martin cautioned against link ing every problem they have to their Conn Bat experiences. A a there a some risk with overreaction and associating any major event wit a somehow this must be related to the a in Southwest  a Martin said �?o1 might be might not